I think they look awful on men and truly disgusting on women. Amy Winehouse looked as if she'd been drawn on by a five year old with felt tip pens.

On a purely practical note, I wonder how many people have missed out on job opportunities because of their 'body art'. Appearance is important in many jobs, and I know of some employers who won't employ people with visible tattoos.

And when they found our shadows
Grouped around the TV sets
They ran down every lead
They repeated every test
They checked out all the data on their lists
And then the alien anthropologists
Admitted they were still perplexed
But on eliminating every other reason
For our sad demise
They logged the only explanation left
This species has amused itself to death
No tears to cry no feelings left
This species has amused itself to death

I'm in the minority in that most of my mates have loads of tattoos but I don't have any. But at least they had them when it wasn't quite as trendy and the only people who had them were seen as 'a bit dodgy' or punks or metallers etc. Nowadays my mum has several and so does my old gran: the ACAB one goes down a storm at the social club

I'm affraid I'm old school on tatoos, just the way I was brought up I suppose. Don't really have an opinion one way or another about tatoos on men, but they make women look, well, cheap. Having said that, I have met some absolutely charming women who have tatoos, so shows what I know, so it must be about a first impressions/perception kind of thing. But I still don't know how why a woman would want to disfigure herself it this way.